Further, having affirmed that he would be beholden to none of them, he got the contract to carry the United States mail, twice a week, from Kelterville up over Tarwater Mountain to Old Almaden--which was a sporadically worked quick-silver mine in the upland cattle country.
spindle. 1. a pin tapered at one end or both ends, or something with this shape. 2. the thin, tapering figure occurring during metaphase of cell division, composed of microtubules radiating from the centrioles and connecting to the chromosomes at their centromeres.
Quick Answer. The spindle fibers are used to control the movement and segregation of chromosomes in both the mitosis cell division and meiosis cell division. The spindles are referred to as the spindle apparatus and also mitotic spindle during mitosis or the meiotic spindle during meiosis. In both cases, the spindles serve the same purpose, which is to separate the daughter cells and their chromosomes.